Disciples of Christ

That’s already 21 centuries of tracking Christ, proclaiming his divinity and his saving action of all mankind. This cost the Church millions of martyrs on five continents and impressive humanitarian work. The witnesses of the faith have endured prisons, tortures, prisons, persecutions of all kinds, slander, persecution and death by murder.

Let’s remember the idolatrous Roman Empire with its colosseums, where Christians were mauled by wild beasts or slaughtered by cruel executioners, including the families of these brave people, for publicly professing their faith and refusing to worship the emperor. followers of Christ. let’s remember the night when Rome was enlightened by Nero using the burnt bodies of Christians as torches.

Less than a century ago, in Spain, which gave thousands of missionaries to the world, and especially in Latin America, revolution an atheist and communist, within the framework of the civil war, he committed the cruel and merciless murder of nine thousand (9,000) priests, monks and nuns, and bishops, and systematic burning of churches and monasteries. This is without counting the thousands of lay people who, just for going to mass, were imprisoned, and many were killed.

martyrdom has always existed existed in the Churchand when a person offers his life to keep his faith intact, it is because he firmly believes in it Christ is Lord. And a few decades ago, the assassination in El Salvador of the one who is now a saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop and other martyred priests in that country as in Guatemala. Previously in Mexicoas part of religious persecution, both priests and laymen were killed.

But no less impressive is the service to relieve human suffering, which has led the Church to work in old people’s homes, leprosariums, asylums, prisons, orphanages, hospitals and schools for the poor, and to go into the deepest jungles and create a mission to bring faith and the progress of time to millions People.

Let’s recall just for the sake of example Reductions of Paraguay. All this was done by following Jesus Christ as our Lord, accepting Him as Savior, experiencing the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and believing that we have a merciful Father. Following Christ done it produces wonderful effects in the world in a radical way. The proof is everything that the Church has done in these 21st centuries and how it has influenced all universal thought.

Respect for life, human dignity, the right to participate in the goods of creation; family promotion, he the right to freedom and to express his faith, up to education, in all that he has intervened in the Church.